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'''Visuals:''' On a turquoise background with black shading all around it, a small, stretched globe of the Earth is shown in the center of the screen. The globe has longitude lines on it, cyan oceans, red/
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Filmways, Inc. was originally founded in 1958 by Martin Ransohoff. It was acquired by the Orion Pictures Company in 1982; the same year, Filmways Television was renamed as Orion Television and Filmways Pictures was folded into "Orion Pictures Corporation" in June. Today, The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction (both were distributed by Viacom Enterprises but are now owned by CBS Media Ventures, while Orion Television retains the copyright on all episodes that have not gone into the public domain), Thundarr: The Barbarian and Fangface are both owned by Warner Bros. Television after Turner Broadcasting acquired the pre-1991 Ruby-Spears Productions library. Eye Guess, The Face is Familiar and Personality are owned by Sony Pictures Television via Stewart Television; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman/Forever Fernwood is also owned by SPT through ELP Communications. The remainder of the Filmways Television library is currently owned by MGM Television with Orion Pictures owning the copyright.
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1st Logo (July 2, 1958-March 6, 1974) | 2nd Logo (1975-July 4, 1977) | 3rd Logo (November 7, 1976-March 21, 1981) | 4th Logo (October 8, 1981-June 5, 1983) |
Visuals: On a turquoise background with black shading all around it, a small, stretched globe of the Earth is shown in the center of the screen. The globe has longitude lines on it, cyan oceans, red/dark green continents, and has a long white line across it acting as the Equator, with wavelengths on each end. The background is also filled with star clusters, stray sparkling stars, a ringed planet in the top right, and long clouds strewn across the screen. From behind the globe, the text "A FILMWAYS", with a 3D trail and arched to match the globe's position, zoom in and stop after becoming fully visible, and then the text "TELEVISION PRESENTATION" fades-in below the globe, along with the the Seal of Good Practice below.
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Technique: Camera controlled/cel animation.
Audio: At least on Filmways' more successful shows, there would be a voice over saying "This has been a Filmways (television) presentation". Those who uttered the phrase are listed below. The in-credit variant uses the end theme of the show. Several voice-overs who said the phrase on this logo on the shows they appeared on:
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Legacy: A nifty logo from the '50s that remains well-remembered and a favorite by many as it was involved in some classic television shows from the time period.
Visuals: On a blue background, the white text "FILMWAYS", in a stretched, modified Bauhaus 93 font, appears in the center of the screen, as 3 more appear surrounding it in a aura-like effect, colored orange, maroon, and white in that order. The additional logos disappears piece by piece, in order of appearance, leaving the largest copy alone as a copyright notice appears below. The notice disappears when the logo is about to fade out.
Technique: Stop-motion animation, with digitally-inserted text.
Audio: Telephone chimes that change in pitch as the logo forms.
Audio Trivia: The telephone beeps, when translated to numbers, spell out "345-9989". If one goes by the letters that go with each number on a telephone dial, this spells out "FILMWAY".
Availability: This logo was only seen on the failed TV pilot movie, Mason.
Legacy: A rather intriguing logo for its telephone beeps and the first appearance of the familiar Filmways logo, which would be kept and refined in the following years.
Visuals: On a black background, many orange, dark red and cream-colored "FILMWAYS", all in a unstretched version of the previous logo's font, scroll up from the bottom of the screen, meeting in the center. Eventually, the last "FILMWAYS" fades to a pure white color and the animation stops.
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Technique: Camera-controlled/cel animation.
Audio: A seven-note descending bell tune with guitars playing (which was done by Jack Elliot and Allyn Ferguson) or the closing theme of the show.
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Visuals: A shortened version of the 1981 Filmways Pictures logo, but with the text "FILMWAYS TELEVISION" instead.
Trivia: By this time, the company was also known as Filmways Enterprises.
Variants:
Technique: Motion-controlled animation.
Audio: A shortened version of the fanfare from the 1981 Filmways Pictures logo, the closing theme from the program or none.
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